Angry Abolitionists And The Rhetoric Of Slavery

Author : Benjamin Lamb-Books
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319313467

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Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery by Benjamin Lamb-Books Pdf

This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over American slavery.

Author : Katie Barclay,Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000614121

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The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World by Katie Barclay,Peter N. Stearns Pdf

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles. Named emotions – love, anger, fear – highlight how particular categories have been deployed to make sense of feeling and their evolution over time. Geographical perspectives provide access to the historiographies of regions that are less well-covered by English-language sources, opening up global perspectives and new literatures. Key thematic sections are designed to intersect with critical historiographies, demonstrating the value of an emotions perspective to a range of areas. Topical sections direct attention to the role of emotions in relations of power, to intimate lives and histories of place, as products of exchanges across groups, and as deployed by new technologies and medias. The concepts of globalisation and modernity run through the volume, acting as foils for comparison and analytical tools. The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of emotions across the world from 1700.

Author : B. Carey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230501621

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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility by B. Carey Pdf

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time. Examining both familiar and unfamiliar texts, including poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that salve-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the 'cult of feeling'.

Author : Kelly A Ryan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479801695

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Everyday Crimes by Kelly A Ryan Pdf

The narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social and domestic violence in the nineteenth century In the early nineteenth century, Peter Wheeler, a slave to Gideon Morehouse in New York, protested, “Master, I won’t stand this,” after Morehouse beat Wheeler’s hands with a whip. Wheeler ran for safety, but Morehouse followed him with a shotgun and fired several times. Wheeler sought help from people in the town, but his eventual escape from slavery was the only way to fully secure his safety. Everyday Crimes tells the story of legally and socially dependent people like Wheeler—free and enslaved African Americans, married white women, and servants—who resisted violence in Massachusetts and New York despite lacking formal protection through the legal system. These “dependents” found ways to fight back against their abusers through various resistance strategies. Individuals made it clear that they wouldn’t stand the abuse. Developing relationships with neighbors and justices of the peace, making their complaints known within their communities, and, occasionally, resorting to violence, were among their tactics. In bearing their scars and telling their stories, these victims of abuse put a human face on the civil rights issues related to legal and social dependency, and claimed the rights of individuals to live without fear of violence.

Author : Frederick 1818-1895 Douglass
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 137407120X

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ORATION BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS by Frederick 1818-1895 Douglass Pdf

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Author : Katie Barclay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307551

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The History of Emotions by Katie Barclay Pdf

This student guide introduces the key concepts, theories and approaches to the history of emotions while teaching readers how to apply these ideas to historical source material. Covering the main emotions approaches and providing a range of global case studies and historical sources with which to apply learning, this textbook provides a 'how to' guide for those new to the field and for those learning how historians apply methods to source material. Written in clear and accessible language, each chapter is accompanied by further reading, while surveying many of the main areas of current research and providing ideas for personal research projects and further learning. This methodological guide is ideal for students taking modules on the History of Emotions, or for students on general Historical Skills modules.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : BL:A0018645082

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Poems on Slavery by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Simon J. Gilhooley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108496124

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The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution by Simon J. Gilhooley Pdf

Locates the origins of the modern sense of a Founder's Constitution in Antebellum debates over slavery in the nation's capital.

Author : Melanie Joy
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781523086689

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Powerarchy by Melanie Joy Pdf

Harvard-educated psychologist and bestselling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology—which she calls powerarchy. Melanie Joy had long been curious as to why people who were opposed to one or more forms of oppression—such as racism, sexism, speciesism, and so forth—often stayed mired in many others. She also wondered why people who were working toward social justice sometimes engaged in interpersonal dynamics that were unjust. Or why people who valued freedom and democracy might nevertheless vote and act against these values. Where was the disconnect? In this thought-provoking analysis, Joy explains how we've all been deeply conditioned by the invisible system of powerarchy to believe in a hierarchy of moral worth—to view some individuals and groups as either more or less worthy of moral consideration—and to treat them accordingly. Powerarchy conditions us to engage in power dynamics that violate integrity and harm dignity, and it creates unjust power imbalances among social groups and between individuals. Joy describes how powerarchies—both social and interpersonal—perpetuate themselves through cognitive distortions, such as denial and justification; narratives that reinforce the belief in a hierarchy of moral worth; and privileges that are granted to some and not others. She also provides tools for transformation. By illuminating powerarchy and the psychology it creates, Joy helps us to work more fully toward transformation for ourselves, others, and our world.

Author : Mark Neuendorf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030843564

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Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 by Mark Neuendorf Pdf

This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.

Author : Carme Manuel
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788491349617

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The Slave's Little Friends by Carme Manuel Pdf

The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children “to feel right,” and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters. Reading was equated with knowledge and knowledge was equated with moral responsibility, and therefore reading about “the abominations of slavery” became an act of emotional personal transformation. Children were thus turned into powerful agents of political change and potential activists to spread the abolitionist message. Invited to comply with a higher law that entailed the breaking of their nation’s edicts, they were morally rewarded by the Christian God and approvingly applauded by their elders for their violation of these same American regulations. These texts enclosed immeasurable value for young nineteenth-century Americans to fulfill a more democratic and egalitarian role in their future. Undoubtedly, abolitionist writings for children took away American children’s innocence and transformed them into juvenile abolitionists and empowered compassionate citizens.

Author : Kurt Gray,Jesse Graham
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781462541225

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Atlas of Moral Psychology by Kurt Gray,Jesse Graham Pdf

This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a dynamic and evolving area of research. In 57 concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and behavior. It is organized around the key questions that must be addressed for a complete understanding of the moral mind.

Author : Ryan Hanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108475655

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Beyond Slavery and Abolition by Ryan Hanley Pdf

Shows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.

Author : Colleen Glenney Boggs
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603292771

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Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War by Colleen Glenney Boggs Pdf

When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1863, he reportedly greeted her as "the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War." To this day, Uncle Tom's Cabin serves as a touchstone for the war. Yet few works have been selected to represent the Civil War's literature, even though historians have filled libraries with books on the war itself. This volume helps teachers address the following questions: What is the relation of canonical works to the multitude of occasional texts that were penned in response to the Civil War, and how can students understand them together? Should an approach to war literature reflect the chronology of historical events or focus instead on thematic clusters, generic forms, and theoretical concerns? How do we introduce students to archival materials that sometimes support, at other times resist, the close reading practices in which they have been trained? Twenty-three essays cover such topics as visiting historical sites to teach the literature, using digital materials, teaching with anthologies; soldiers' dime novels, Confederate women's diaries, songs, speeches; the conflicted theme of treason, and the double-edged theme of brotherhood; how battlefield photographs synthesize fact and fiction; and the roles in the war played by women, by slaves, and by African American troops. A section of the volume provides a wealth of resources for teachers.

Author : Kellie Carter Jackson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812224702

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Force and Freedom by Kellie Carter Jackson Pdf

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative efforts as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Supreme Court's 1857 ruling in the Dred Scott case effectively voided any rights black Americans held as enslaved or free people. As conditions deteriorated for African Americans, black abolitionist leaders embraced violence as the only means of shocking Northerners out of their apathy and instigating an antislavery war. In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through rousing public speeches, the bourgeoning black press, and the formation of militia groups, black abolitionist leaders mobilized their communities, compelled national action, and drew international attention. Drawing on the precedent and pathos of the American and Haitian Revolutions, African American abolitionists used violence as a political language and a means of provoking social change. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War. Force and Freedom takes readers beyond the honorable politics of moral suasion and the romanticism of the Underground Railroad and into an exploration of the agonizing decisions, strategies, and actions of the black abolitionists who, though lacking an official political voice, were nevertheless responsible for instigating monumental social and political change.